Tom Crabtree was inducted into the original class of the MHS Hall of Fame in 2003, a group that included Steve Prefontaine, Mel Counts, Fran Worthen, Bruce Hoffine and Pete Susick. The following is from his Hall of Fame induction.
Crabtree won 11 varsity letters, and was a four-year letterman in football and four-year starter in basketball for Marshfield. He was a member of the 1949 junior high state champion and 1953 Marshfield state champion teams coached by Bruce Hoffine and was an all-state halfback on the 1951 and 1952 Marshfield football teams coached by Pete Susick. He was selected most valuable player of the 1953 Shrine All-Star Game. In track and field, he competed in the pole vault, high jump and shot put.
After high school, he was a three-year football letterman at the University of Oregon. He was the student body president his senior year at Marshfield and was active in the National Honor Society. He also finished second in the 1953 national Elks Youth Leadership Contest. He has been in the lumber business since graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957.
Crabtree participated in the maximum of 16 state tournament basketball games. He was second team all tournament in 1951 and 1952, moving up to first team in 1953 when Marshfield won the title.
